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Microsoft is closing down Xbox studio The Initiative, with Perfect Dark killed as well

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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Hisnitch@beehaw.org⁩ to ⁨gaming@beehaw.org⁩

https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/xbox/microsoft-is-closing-down-xbox-studio-the-initiative

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  • Midnitte@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    “What could go wrong with letting Microsoft buy up all the studios?”

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    • Chewy7324@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yeah it’s so sad seeing studio after studio being closed down. So many commenters thought Microsoft will revive old IPs.

      Now it seems like those IPs will just rot at Microsoft in their intellectual property graveyard.

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      • Faydaikin@beehaw.org ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        The IPs are the really sad part here. There was some good stuff in there, but alas…

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  • brsrklf@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    That’s the “Quadruple A” studio right? The one that was supposed to have “unlimited budget” soi it could create “groundbreaking video game experiences”?

    And they ended up not releasing anything before they’re shut down. A+ management there, Microsoft.

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    • frank@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Quadruple A+ management*

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  • TabbsTheBat@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Has there ever been a gaming article that started with microsoft where the following words weird closing/shutting down? Hah

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    • brsrklf@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I can think of one, the one where they announced they were so proud of that new studio they had just created.

      But they just closed that very studio and it couldn’t delivered even one game in between, so… Yeah.

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    • savvywolf@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Probably only if the word “AI” is in the title…

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      • TabbsTheBat@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Real :3

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  • cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    "we have copilot why do we need game studios?" - microsoft probably

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  • Megaman_EXE@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    That was the ONE trailer from this Xbox announcement that I was actually looking forward to. It looked in a fairly playable state, too. I feel like a very broken record, but this is yet another reason why it feels like Microsoft is pulling out of gaming.

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  • lustyargonian@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Classic case of how unrestricted money and a hotch potch of talent doesn’t make a studio. It needs to have strong leadership, vision and some constraints.

    Microsoft will never learn that throwing money at the problem isn’t ever the solution.

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  • belated_frog_pants@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    God i hate microsoft

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